Hat-bag



N0. 6ll.633. Patented Oct. 4, I898. M. L. HORNING.

HAT BAG.

(Application filed Feb. 17, 1898.)

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HAT BAG.

(Application filed Feb. 17, 1898.) (No Model.)

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MARTIN L. IIORNING, OF ALBION, MICHIGAN.

HAT-BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,633, dated October4, 1898.

Application filed February 17, 1898. Serial No. 670,720. [No model.)

T at whom it may'ooncern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN L. HORNING, a citizen of the United States,residing at Albion, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, haveinvented a new and useful Pyramidal Hat-Bag, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention is in the nature of a pyramidal bag or paper box especiallydesigned to receive a ladys trimmed hat, the object being to provide anunfolded orpartiallyfolded bag or box which may be folded about a ladystrimmed hat or other delicate structure inthe form of a pyramid toprevent injury to the contents.

With this object in view my invention consists in a square blank ofpaper provided with a centrally-located square of pasteboard on itsupper surface, the angles of the paper blank being so placed withrelation to the pasteboard square that the diagonals of one aresubstantially atangles of forty-five clegrees to the diagonals of theother and the straight sides of the square of pasteboard substantiallyparallel with one of the diagonals of the paper blank.

My invention further consists in a pyramidal hat-bag formed of the paperblank and pasteboard square mentioned by folding the paper blanksubstantially as hereinafter fully described, and afterward specificallypointed out in the claims.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention mostnearly appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed todescribe its construction and operation, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the paper blank andpasteboard square of which my pyramidal hat-bag is composed in the formthey assume at the end of the first operation of folding. Fig. 2 is aperspective View illustrating these parts with the second operation offolding performed upon one side of one end of the blank. Fig. 3 is aperspective view illustrating the device with both sides of one endfolded. Fig. 4 is a perspective view illustrating the parts after theperformance of another step in the folding, with the folded end shown inFig. 3 turned up nearly to its finished position. Fig. 5 is aperspective view of the pyramid hat-bag finished. Fig. dis a plan viewof the blank with the pasteboard square in position thereon, the linesupon which it is folded being shown dotted. Fig. 7 is a transversesection on the line 7 7 of Fig. 2. Fig. 8 is a section similar to Fig.7, with the folds partly separated to better illustrate them. Fig. 9 isa top plan view of the folded flap as illustrated in Fig. 3, partly insection. Fig. 10 is a detail perspective view of one form in which myinvention is folded for shipment or storage.

Like numerals of reference mark the same parts wherever they occur inthe various figures of the drawings.

In constructing a pyramid hat-bag in accordance with my inventionI takea square sheet of paper 10 11 12 13, Fig. 6, of'any suit able dimensionssay thirty-four inches on each sideand in the center thereof I secure asquare of pasteboard 1 1 16 17 say twelve inches on each side -with thecenter of the pasteboard square in the center of the sheet of paper andwith the sides 14 15 and 1,6 17 of the pasteboardnearly parallel withthe di agonal 10 13 of the square sheet of paper and the sides 14 16 and15 17 of the pasteboard in the same relation to the diagonal 11 12 ofthe paper, each of these sides being at a very slight angle 'to thediagonals, so that the lines 19 14, 15 and 21 10, 17 22,-which aresimply continuations of the sides 1415 and 16 17 of the pasteboard tothe edges of the paper sheet, will end, as shown, at points slightlydifferent in distance from the corners 10 and 13 of the paper sheet. Thefirst step inthe folding of this paper to produce my hat-bag is to foldthe corners 11 and 12 of the paper sheet on the lines 19 20 and 21 22,which eX- tend along two sides of the pasteboard square, bringing thesecorners together, as shown in Fig. 1. The next step is to elevate thecorner 13 toward the corners 11 and 12, which will cause the triangularportions of the paper contained between the lines ll 15 20 and 12 17 22to bend inward and lie upon that portion of the paper containedwithinthe lines 15 17 22 13 20. The next step isto fold the doubletriangular portions on each side on the line 13 15 over upon thetriangular portion of the paper contained between the lines 13 15 17,the result of this step being shown in Fig. 2 and its repetition on theother side of the triangle being shown in Fig. 3, in which the doubletriangular fold of the por tion of the paper 13 17 26 upon the triangle13 15 17 is illustrated. The triangle 13 15 17, with its folds upon it,is now raised, folding upon the line 15 17 along the edge of thepasteboard square until the corner 13 meets the corners 11 and 12 at theapex of the pyramid, forming the third side thereof, the parts beingshown with the triangle 13 15 17 folded up nearly to its closed positionin Fig. 4. During this folding of the triangle 13 15 17 with the foldssuperposed upon it, as before described, the line 15 24, dotted in inFig. 6, marks the inside limit of the fold on one side, and the line 1727 marks the inside limit on the other side, and the inner triangularportions 11 15 24 and 12 17 27 fold on thelines 15 25 and 17 28, so thatthese triangular portions will fit closely against the inside of thefolded triangles superposed upon the triangle 13 15 17, forming thethird side of the pyramid, and may be secured together by mucilage, ifdesired.

The fourth step of the pyramid, the outside of which will be thetriangular portion 10 14 16, will be folded in the same manner upon thelines 10 14, 1O 16, 16 21, 16 29, 16 30, 16 31, 14 19, 14 32, 14 and 1434, the results being the same as hereinbefore described with relationto the third side of the pyramid, until the four points of the foursides of the pyramid are brought together, as shown in Fig. 5, wherethey may be secured by a pin 35 or in any other suitable manner.

The object attained by setting the central square of pasteboard with itssides slightly out of line with the diagonals of the paper sheet is tocause the folds 13 17 26 and 13 15 20 to be of unequal size, in orderthat they may not interfere with each other in the final folding of thesides of the pyramid, which would be the case if they were of equalsize. This feature is best illustrated in Fig. 9 and will be readilyunderstood without further description.

The result of the procedure of folding hereinbefore described is ahollow pyramidalbag or box specially designed to receive a ladys trimmedhat or any other article of merchandise liable to injury from contactwith the bag in which it is placed, and it is my intention to furnishthese to merchants and milliners properly marked in order to be folded,so that they will always be ready for use when required, theconstruction being so simple as .to permit of their manufacture and saleat sufficiently low prices to admit of their general adoption.

I propose also to prepare my invention for shipping or packing byfolding it into the form shown in Fig. 10, inwhich the sides of thepyramid, of which 11 and 12 are the apices, have their points foldedunder and are folded down upon each other, the numeral 36 indicating theline upon which the apex 11 is folded, after which those sides of which10 and 13 are the apices are folded with the apices doubled under andafterward folded down upon the other sides of the pyramid, the numeral37 indicating the line upon which the apex 10 is folded under.

WVhile I have illustrated and described what I consider to be the bestmeans for carrying out my invention, I do not wish to'be understood asrestricting myself to the exact details of construction shown, but holdthat any slight changes and variations such asmight suggestthemselves'to the ordinary mechanic would properly fall within the limitand scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A pyramidal bag, box or receptacle formed of a square sheet of paperstiffened to form the bottom by means of a square of pasteboardorsimilar material secured centrally thereto, the center of the papercoinciding with the center of the pasteboard and the paper folded on thelines extending from the corners of the pasteboard to the points 10, 19,32, 33, 34, 11, 25, 24, 23, 20, 13, 22, 26, 27, 28, 12, 31, 30, 29, and21, and along the sides of the pasteboard, substantially as described.

2. A pyramidal bag, box or receptacle formed of a square sheet of paperstiffened to form the bottom by means of a square of pasteboard orsimilar material secured centrally thereto, the center of the papercoinciding with the center of the pasteboard and the paper folded toform triangular sides 10 14 16, 11 14 15, 13 15 17, and 12 16 17, thesections of paper between lines 10 11 14, 11 13 15, 12 13 17, and 10 1216, being folded inwardly and inclosed by the triangular sides,substantially as described.

3. A pyramidal bag, box or receptacle formed of a square sheet of paperstiffened to form the bottom by means of a square of paste board orsimilar material secured centrally thereto, the center of the papercoinciding with the center of the pasteboard, the sides of thepasteboard lying substantially parallel with but at a slight angle tothe diagonals of the sheet of paper and the paper folded on the linesextending from the corners of the pasteboard to the points 10, 19, 32,33, 34, 11, 25, 24, 23, 20, 13, 22, 26, 27, 28, 12, 31, 30, 29, and 21,and along the sides of the pasteboard, substantially as described.

4. A pyramidal bag, box or receptacle formed of a square sheet of paperstiffened to form the bottom by means of a square of pasteboard orsimilar material secured centrally thereto, the center of the papercoinciding IIO 10 12 16, being folded inwardly and inclosed by thetriangular sides, substantially as described.

MARTIN L. I-IORNING. Witnesses:

M. D. WEEKS, O. L. DAVIS.

